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Main article: 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis
See also: Subprime lending and Collateralized debt obligation
On June 22, 2007, Bear Stearns pledged a collateralized loan of up to $3.2 billion to "bail out" one of its funds, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Fund, while negotiating with other banks to loan money against collateral to another fund, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leveraged Fund. Bear Stearns had originally put up just $35 million, so they were hesitant about the bailout, however CEO James Cayne and other senior executives worried about the damage to the company's reputation.[6][7] The funds were invested in thinly traded collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). Merrill Lynch seized $850 million worth of the underlying collateral but only was able to auction $100 million of them. The incident sparked concern of contagion as Bear Stearns might be forced to liquidate its CDOs, prompting a mark-down of similar assets in other portfolios.[8][9] Richard A. Marin, a senior executive at Bear Stearns Asset Management responsible for the two hedge funds, was replaced on June 29 by Jeffrey B. Lane, a former Vice Chairman of rival investment bank, Lehman Brothers.[10]

During the week of July 16, 2007, Bear Stearns disclosed that the two subprime hedge funds had lost nearly all of their value amid a rapid decline in the market for subprime mortgages.

On August 1, 2007, investors in the two funds took action against Bear Stearns and its top board and risk management managers and officers. The law firms of Jake Zamansky & Associates and Rich & Intelisano both filed arbitration claims with the National Association of Securities Dealers alleging that Bear Stearns misled investors about its exposure to the funds. This was the first legal action made against Bear Stearns, though there have been several others since then. Co-President Warren Spector was asked to resign on August 5, 2007, as a result of an ongoing conflict with Cayne. Spector, considered the apparent heir to become CEO, was blamed by Cayne for the failure of the hedge funds. A September 21 report in the New York Times noted that Bear Stearns posted a 61 percent drop in net profits due to their hedge fund losses.[11] With Samuel Molinaro's November 15 revelation that Bear Stearns was writing down a further $1.2 billion in mortgage-related securities and would face its first loss in 83 years, Standard & Poor's downgraded the company's credit rating from AA to A.[12]

Matthew Tannin and Ralph R. Cioffi, both former managers of hedge funds at Bear Stearns Companies, were arrested June 19, 2008. They are facing criminal charges and are suspected of misleading investors about the risks involved in the subprime market. Tannin and Cioffi have also been named in lawsuits brought forth by Barclays Bank, who claims they were one of the many investors misled by the executives.[13][14]

They were also named in civil lawsuits brought in 2007 by investors, including Barclays Bank PLC, who claimed they had been misled. Barclays claimed that Bear Stearns knew that certain assets in the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Master Fund were worth much less than their professed values. The suit claimed that Bear Stearns managers devised "a plan to make more money for themselves and further to use the Enhanced Fund as a repository for risky, poor-quality investments." The lawsuit said Bear Stearns told Barclays that the enhanced fund was up almost 6% through June 2007 — when "in reality, the portfolio's asset values were plummeting."[15]

Fed bailout and sale to JPMorgan Chase
On March 14, 2008, JP Morgan Chase, in conjunction with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, agreed to provide (under terms and conditions to be agreed) a (up to) 28-day emergency loan to Bear Stearns in order to prevent the potential market crash that would result from Bear Stearns becoming insolvent.[16] Despite, or because of, this, belief in Bear's ability to repay its obligations rapidly diminished among counterparties and traders. Seeing that the terms of the emergency loan was not enough to bolster Bear Stearns, and worried that a still-floundering Bear would result in systemic losses if allowed to open in the markets on the following Monday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. told CEO Alan Schwartz that he had to sell the firm over the weekend, in time for the opening of the Asian market. [17] Two days later, on March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns signed a merger agreement with JP Morgan Chase in a stock swap worth $2 a share or less than 10 percent of Bear Stearns' market value.[18] This sale price represented a staggering loss as its stock had traded at $172 a share as late as January 2007, and $93 a share as late as February 2008. In addition, the Federal Reserve agreed to issue a non-recourse loan of $29 billion to JP Morgan Chase,[19] thereby assuming the risk of Bear Stearns's less liquid assets (see Maiden Lane LLC). This non-recourse loan means that the loan is collateralized by mortgage debt[20] and that the government can not seize J.P. Morgan Chase's assets if the mortgage debt collateral becomes insufficient to repay the loan.[20][21] Chairman of the Fed, Ben Bernanke, defended the bailout by stating that a Bear Stearns' bankruptcy would have affected the real economy[22] and could have caused a "chaotic unwinding" of investments across the US markets.[18]

On March 20, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said the collapse of Bear Stearns was due to a lack of confidence, not a lack of capital. Cox noted that Bear Stearns's problems escalated when rumors spread about its liquidity crisis which in turn eroded investor confidence in the firm. "Notwithstanding that Bear Stearns continued to have high quality collateral to provide as security for borrowings, market counterparties became less willing to enter into collateralized funding arrangements with Bear Stearns," said Cox. Bear Stearns' liquidity pool started at $18.1 billion on March 10 and then plummeted to $2 billion on March 13. Ultimately market rumors about Bear Stearns' difficulties became self-fulfilling, Cox said.[23]

On March 24, 2008, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of shareholders, challenging the terms of JPMorgan’s recently announced acquisition of Bear Stearns.[24] That same day, a new agreement was reached that raised JPMorgan Chase's offer to $10 a share, up from the initial $2 offer, that meant an offer of $1.2 billion.[25] The revised deal was aimed to quiet upset investors and any subsequent legal action brought against JP Morgan Chase as a result of the deal as well as to prevent employees, many of whose past compensation consisted of Bear Stearns stock, from leaving for other firms. The Bear Stearns bailout was seen as an extreme-case scenario, and continues to raise significant questions about Fed intervention. On May 29, Bear Stearns shareholders approved the sale to JPMorgan Chase at the $10-per-share price.[26]

Bear Stearns Merchant Banking
Main article: Bear Stearns Merchant Banking
As part of the acquisition of Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase acquired several private equity groups within Bear Stearns Asset Management, including:

Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, a $4.4 billion private equity business founded in 1997. In June 2008, it was announced BSMB would spin out of J.P. Morgan[27][28][29] and in November 2008, the firm relaunched as Irving Place Capital.[30][31]
Bear Growth Capital Partners, a growth capital investment group founded in 2003 with a $375 million commitment from Bear Stearns.[32][33] J.P. Morgan hired CCMP Capital to manage the legacy fund[34]
Bear Stearns Private Equity Ltd., renamed J.P. Morgan Private Equity Limited (LSE: JPEL), a publicly traded private equity vehicle making fund of funds and secondary investments[35]
Bear Stearns Health Innoventures, a venture capital fund established to invest in early- to mid-stage health care focused companies with a focus on the biotechnology sector[36]
Constellation Ventures a venture capital group, founded in 1998, making investments in the media, communications, software and services sectors[37]

Major shareholders
The largest Bear Stearns shareholders as of December 2007 were:[38]

Barrow Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss - 9.73%
Joseph C. Lewis - 9.36%
Morgan Stanley - 5.37%
James Cayne - 4.94%
Legg Mason Capital Management - 4.84%
Private Capital Management - 4.69%
Barclays Global Investors - 3.60%
State Street 3.01%
Vanguard Group - 2.67%
Janus Capital Management - 2.34%
Legg Mason Funds Management - 1.95%
Fidelity Management- 1.93%
Putnam Investment Management - 1.90%
Neuberger Berman - 1.55%
UBS - 1.54%

贝尔斯登公司简介
成立时间:1923
总部地点:美国纽约市
产业:投资
主营业务:金融服务、投资银行、投资管理
年营业额:US$16.551 billion (11/2006)
员工数:13,566 (11/2006)
贝尔斯登银行董事长兼首席执行官:James E. Cayne
　　贝尔斯登公司(Bear Stearns Cos.)(纽约证券交易所代码:BSC)成立于1923年,全球最大的投资银行与证券交易公司之一,贝尔斯登公司是美国华尔街第六大投资银行,系全球500强企业之一主要从事资本市场、财富管理等领域的金融服务。总部位于美国纽约市,是美国华尔街第六大投资银行,系全球500强企业之一,是一家全球领先的金融服务公司,为全世界的政府、企业、机构和个人提供服务。公司业务涵盖企业融资和并购、机构股票和固定收益产品的销售和交易、证券研究、私人客户服务、衍生工具、外汇及期货销售和交易、资产管理和保管服务。Bear Stearns还为对冲基金、经纪人和投资咨询者提供融资、证券借贷、结算服务以及技术解决方案。

　　美资大行贝尔斯登或许不是资产规模最大的投行——它的规模仅仅在美国排名第六,但却是近几年华尔街最赚钱的投行。